So that’s why Google wants you to use Chrome on your iPhone so badly::Sundar Pichai’s Google pays Tim Cook’s Apple a whopping 36% of search revenue it gets when people use Safari — ouch.
The thing to take from the whole situation with Google having to pay apple for defualt search that I feel not enough people are talking about is that Apple didn’t lose anything but gained. So of course they didn’t care about the consequences for users. Apple never took any blame in media press either so they and Google both got away with it, with Google taking little stings from it it every now and then, and now finally it’s catching up to Google in particular.
Not saying I blame apple as much as Google for making this step, but their greed is part of the problem too.
It’s a publicly traded company. They will never care as much about their users as they do about their bottom line
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That figure was apparently not supposed to be disclosed in open court, but a witness mentioned it, leading Google’s lawyer to “visibly cringe.”
(Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the number on Tuesday in testimony for a different antitrust lawsuit.)
Google is essentially willing to take a worse deal from Apple than it gives to Candy Crush.
You can certainly imagine why Google would love iPhone users to download the Chrome app and set it as their default search engines.
But data from Similarweb indicates Safari still makes up about 27% of browsers when considering all devices, including mobile phones.
Correction: November 15, 2023 — An earlier version of this story misstated the scope of Google’s payments to Apple.
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lol that’s funny, but I assume it’s to make it super clear that it is infact a bot to most people.
36% is such an odd amount. Apple gets 30% of app revenue. 1/3rd would be 33%. How do they negotiate the extra few points over either of those baselines?
Started negotiating at 40%, agreed to 10% less “so 10% of 40 is 4, right?”
Started at six percent. Tim cook said “I WANT SIX TIMES THAT AMOUNT!!!”
“AND GET ME MORE PICTURES OF SPIDERMAN!!!”
I know is notr related, but you find 36% on probability in the most unexpected places because is 1/e
And both Chrome and Safari, at least on iOS, are just reskins of one another.
The question is why is it %36 instead of the 30% on the app stores for app developers. did apple get a little greedy about it? i’m surprised apple never raised the price further as a way of blackmailing Google, to keep its defualt search position on iPhones.
I don’t get it. Chrome is not installed on any apple device and I can freely switch my search to DuckDuckGo and never have to use any google stuff ever in my life.
People are used to google as a search engine and depending on their search habits, it can still produce the best results. And for a while, Chrome was the best mainstream browser. People are used to that, too.
And, most importantly, most people don’t really care. They use what they have. That’s the only reason bing is still a thing. And also the reason Google pays billions to Apple just so they’re the standard search engine. For a little while, Siri‘s standard search was bing. But now, Google just pays better, I guess.
I personally use Safari on Apple devices and Firefox on everything else and DuckDuckGo on all of them but that’s not the best solution for everyone and be it only because it takes some amount of effort.
